12 Hudson Valley Areas Among Most Prosperous in New York

NYUP.com looked into data collected by the public policy research organization Economic Innovation Group and used the following key metrics to find the communities with the highest economic well being.

Adults without a High School Diploma

Poverty Rate

Prime-Age Adults Not in Work

Housing Vacancy Rate

Median Income Ratio

Change in Employment

Change in Establishments

The Economic Innovation Group looked into every zip code in America and combined them to make a "distressed communities index score (DCI)." NYUP.com looked into the data and compiled a list of the top 53 zip codes in "Upstate New York". Below are the most prosperous zip codes in the Hudson Valley according to the data.